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• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Palau and departed later on the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• A message was sent to USS Golet, but the submarine did not respond. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British and Canadian forces entered the rubble that was Caen, France. Meanwhile, US XIX Corps began advancing toward Saint-Lô, France. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Aiming to cut off German Armeegruppe Nord, Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front attacked from Vitebsk, Byelorussia, Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front attacked from Psovsk, and the Soviet Leningrad Front attacked toward Narva, Estonia. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• Raoul Wallenberg boarded the 1721 train from Berlin, Germany for Budapest, Hungary, arriving later that night. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Major Frank Blaker of the British Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment won the Victoria Cross at Taunghi, Burma. Charging Japanese positions he was hit three times but continued to urge his men forward even as he lays dying. ww2dbase [AC]
• British Royal Navy Captain F. J. Walker of the Second Escort Group died of a stroke brought on by heavy strain and overwork. ww2dbase [AC]
• Adolf Hitler departed the Wolfsschlucht II headquarters in Margival, France for the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Ray departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Finnish troops withdrew from the Äyräpää ridge near Vuosalmi, Finland. On the Soviet side, a number of formations began to be withdrawn from the nearby Tali-Ihantala region for the campaign in Estonia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The British The North Staffordshire Regiment captured the fortified village of Malan, Italy. Facing dug-in Tiger tanks, the Staffords suffer 25% casualties in the battle. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• Japanese Navy landing ship No. 155 was completed and was transferred to the Army as a SB craft. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 161 was laid down by Hitachi Zosen. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS New Mexico began guarding aircraft carriers off the Mariana Islands area. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sunfish sank Japanese cargo ship Taihei Maru in the Kurile Islands, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Segundo departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Five trains carrying 14,212 Hungarian Jews (3,065 from Monor, 3,072 from Óbuda, 3,072 from Budakalász, 3,079 from Monor, and 1,924 from Békesmegyer) acrossed the border into occupied Poland, destined for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Torpedo Squadron 80 aboard USS Ticonderoga resumed flight training off Trinidad. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]

• The South Metropolitan Gas Company's gasholder in Kennington, south-east London, England, United Kingdom received a direct hit from a V-1 flying bomb causing a huge explosion and a large amount of damage to local houses. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

9 Jul 1944 Interactive Map